The effect of the look-back period for estimating incidence using administrative data

• Main Authors: Mira Kim (Author), Kyung-Hee Chae (Author), Youn-Jee Chung (Author), HyeJin Hwang (Author), MinKyung Lee (Author), Hyun-Kyung Kim (Author), Hyun-Hee Cho (Author), Mee-Ran Kim (Author), Chai-Young Jung (Author), Sukil Kim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The look-back period is needed to define baseline population for estimating incidence. However, short look-back period is known to overestimate incidence of diseases misclassifying prevalent cases to incident cases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the vario...